Cigar case



' R. H. GAEDE.

CIGAR use. ATION FILED AUG-Z9, I921- 'A PPL|C V Patented Oct. 3, 1922.

ATTORNEY Patented Get. 3, 1922.

ROBERT H. GAEDE, 0F PRAEKNESS, NEW" JERSEY.

CIGAR CASE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT H. GAnnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Praekness, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful'lmprovements in Cigar Cases, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pocket cases for cigars and the like elongated fragile articles. The principal object of the inventionis to provide a case of the kind indicated which, when it is in use as a pocket container, that is to say, when it is in the pocket and con tains one or more of thearticles, such as cigars, will oppose suchstilfncss that the cigars will be protected against bending or crushing influences and so prevented from being injured, but when it is in the pocket, empty, may be made to stand collasped and will further be perfectly flexible and of little bulk, so as at that time to offer no discomfort or inconvenience to the wearer.

My invention broadly consists in the combination of front and back walls of universally flexible material marginally connected with each other along substantially parallel lines so as to form a pocket-like structure open at least at one end, and one or more elongated partitions arranged. between and each hinged to at least one of said walls in substantial parallelism with said lines, each such partition being flexible on lines extending transversely but substantially non-flexible on. lines extending longitudinally thereof. In the preferred construction, where said walls are also marginally connected so that one end of the pocketlike structure is closed thus to proprovide a bottom thereto, the said partitions are each only attached to one of said walls, thus to permit their hinging movement without a certain amount of necessary shifting of said walls laterally with reference to each other, which would result in undesirable distortion of such bottom part of the structure. In. the preferred construct-ion means is also provided for the movement of each partition on its hinges toward the position where it stands at more or less of an angle to the wall to which it is hinged being limited.

In the drawing, in which the invention is fully illustrated,

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a case or container embodying my invention, the

partitions being shown lying flat against the walls to which they are hinged;

Figure 2 is a sectional View on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Figure 3 is a view similar to F 1 but showing the partitions standing at an angle to the wall to which they are hinged andcigars contained in the case;

Figure 4 is a sectional view on line of Fig. 3; and

Figure 5 is a vertical sectional view of the case or container as it appears in Figs. 3 and 4:.

The front and back walls of the aforesaid pocket-like structure are indicated by the reference characters a and 5. They are generally rectangular in form and are connected along parallel lines corresponding to the sides of the structure and also, in the present case, so that one end oi the structure "7 end of the structure said walls are unconnected, to afford the opening to its interior. The back wall Z) is preferably extended upwardly to provide a flap 0, but that is immaterial. Each wall is in the present instance shown as two-ply, that is to say, as comprising an outer wall member a (5) and an inner wall member, or lining a" (b"), but that is also immateriulfl Both walls are composed of some material-it may be silk fabric, leather or the like, which is universally flexible. Preferably, though is closed thus to form a betterat the" other not indispensably, the front wall a is cut away on a curved line at the top as shown.

(Z designates the partitions These are formed as elongated generally cigar-shaped strips or blades of suitable material which will not break easily (as sheet celluloid) and which will flex readily on lines extending transversely thereof but not on lines extending longitudinally thereof. .hey are arranged between the walls a and Z) at regular intervals from each other and in parallelism with the sides of the pocket-like structure formed by said walls, each being hinged at one longitudinal edge thereof to one of the walls a and b. When these hinged partitions stand in angular relation to the walls (Fig. 4:), spaces or compartments 6 being then formed by them for the reception of the cigars or the like 7, they will resist strains imposed on the case or container and calculatedto crush it or flex it transversely and so injure the cigars, at least so concerns that part of the case in which cigaror c gars are immediately contained, the latter a; course acting to preserve the partition or partitions thereto adjoining in such angular relation; when the partitions lie parallelism with the walls they cease to resist the fiexingol the case or container, which may then be collapsed to comparatively little bull; 2) and is :turther capable oi: flexing on any line, so that not only does it not then unduly bulge th pocket Or the wearers U rinent in which it is placed but can offer no inconvenience ordiscom'tort ie wearer.

is not essential how the partitions are But I prefer to hi1 "5e them in the A strip oi:

it to iabrie or other similarl ole material g] is stitched to each partition along lines it it parallel with, and one of which is near and the other more or less reiuote from one of, the longitudinal edges of the partitions, and so as to leave and one of them wider than the other. the edges o't the several strips, with the partitions thus connected thereto, are stitched to one of the walls of the poclretei orming structure along lines i a" parallel with the sides thereof and spaced from each other but only so far apart that when the partition is shifted on the hinge thus formed to perpendicular relation to said wall the connection j afforded by the strip between the partition and wall will be almost taut. Thus when ci is introduce it into the compartment 0 formed between two partitions, and so as to overlie the connection said con nection will form a stop limi up; the move ment of the )artition to which said oonneo tion is a'ttacaed past the perpendicular. I connections 7' are, preferably all aried at the same r ive sides oi the partitions. Thus the partitions are all constrained to told one way, only, against the wall to which they are hinget and thelimit n mg of their opening movement facilitates the introduction of the cigars into place.

Preferably the partitions protrude a little the open end or mouth of the case where he lateral edge-portions of the strip free Then ranged between and eachhinged to one of said walls in substantial parallelism with said lines, each such partition being flexible on lines extending transversely but substan- A- flexible on Ines extending longiwalls of universally flexible. material marginally connected with each other along substantially parallel lines and thus forming a pocket-like structure open at oneend, and

one orinore elongated partitions arranged between and each hinged to one of said walls in substantial parallelism with said unattached to the other wall, each :tition bei. e; flexible on lines or:-

on lines ext-ending longitudinally "oclret container of the class specified, the col unation of front and back walls substantially parallel lines and thus formin a pocket-like structure open at one end, elongated partition arranged between walls in substantial parallelism with said lines, and a flexible n and one of said'walls and thereby i a hinge for partition and also SQCUITOd to the partition and said wall-at posts removed from the hinge and thereby forming}; a connector limiting; the hinging movement of the partition.

in testimony whereof I atiix my signature.

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